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The Inconsequential Tourist by Stephen Orr

A guest blog from our adventuring novelist Stephen Orr, who's currently conquering Europe. You can check out Stephen's award-winning novels here. -- Sitting on a train from Berlin to Munich, it seems a good time to ruminate (lack of cows in fields, although plenty of wind turbines) on the nature of lit-tourism. Just past Dessau, villages, birch and the fiery glare from the white-blue eyes of an old man (what? what am I doing wrong?) across…

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Wednesday links

The Wednesday links are in, kids! Have you checked the news today? Because we're getting excited about all of this Harper Lee business. Time to rewatch Gregory Peck in the movie version <swoon!>. Also, ever wondered what kind of feedback James Joyce would have got from his creative writing class on his Ulysses? McSweeney's have too! Balked a bit at some of Molly’s “sexier” thoughts, which read like male fantasy. You can do better than…

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